Ryuzo Kikushima
Writer, Producer
January 28, 1914 — March 18, 1989 (75 years)
Japanese screenwriter and film producer who is best known for co-writing the screenplays for several Akira Kurosawa films, including Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo and High and Low. He also produced several of Kurosawa's early 1960s films. In addition to his work with Kurosawa, screenplays he wrote or co-wrote include Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hiroshi Inagaki's Arashi and The Birth of Japan, and Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on which he also served as producer.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | Highest 2 Lowest · as Original Film Writer |
| 2007 | |
| 1996 | Last Man Standing · as Original Film Writer |
| 1987 | |
| 1986 | Kokushi muso · as Screenplay |
| 1984 | The Warrior and the Sorceress · as Original Film WriterOn Plex |
| 1981 | Willful Murder · as Screenplay |
| 1971 | Kaoyaku · as Screenplay |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Shirikurae Magoichi · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Gateway to Glory · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Red Beard · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | Hoodlum Soldier · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | 500,000 · as Screenplay |
| 1963 | High and Low · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1962 | Sanjuro · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | Kaei · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | Yojimbo · as Screenplay |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · as Screenplay |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | The Hidden Fortress · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1957 | They Are Buried Alive · as Novel |
| 1957 | Throne of Blood · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1956 | The Underworld · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | Edo issun no mushi · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Till We Meet Again · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | Soman kokkyô 2-gô sakusen: Kieta chûtai · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Jigoku no kengô Hirate Miki · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Kuroi ushio · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Scandal · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1949 | Stray DogOn Plex |
| 1965 | |
| 1963 | High and LowOn Plex |
| 1962 | |
| 1961 | Yojimbo · as Executive Producer |
| 1960 |
| 2016 | The Black Slope · as Original Story |
| 2008 | Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess · as Original Story |
| 1985 | Runaway Train · as Story |
| 1973 | Stray Dog · as Original Story |
| 1968 | The Last Day of Hsianyang · as Original ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1966 | Django · as Screenplay "yojimbo"On Plex |
| 1964 | A Fistful of Dollars · as Original Story |
| 1956 | Wakanohana monogatari dohyou no oni · as Story |